rarefy

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Although these sculptures pay tribute to commercialism, they rarefy it to something austere — or at least as austere as anything with pulsing green lights can be.

From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2018

Of course it’s serious, and art is serious, but I’m not going to rarefy it.”

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2011

It contains moist air and a movable diaphragm or piston to rarefy it suddenly.

From Time Magazine Archive

The air consequently was damp and gross, for want of stronger rays to open and rarefy it.

From The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls by White, John S. (John Stuart)

But extend this vapour, rarefy it; from so narrow a room as our natural bodies, to any politic body, to a state.

From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by Donne, John